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Posted: Tuesday March 22nd, 2005 12:22 |
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IN MY COUNTRY
Powerful apartheid drama.
Running time: 104 minutes. Rated R (profanity, violence, and graphic descriptions of torture). At the Empire, the Angelika, the Magic Johnson.
WHEN apartheid fell and Nelson Man dela became presi dent of South Af rica in 1994, he had to make a choice. Forgiveness or revenge? New Testament or Old?
Mandela made a Christlike move in granting clemency to the foot soldiers of evil, policemen who had routinely imprisoned, tortured and assassinated innocent blacks for generations.
All Mandela asked in return was that the perpetrators confess at a series of public hearings, where their victims frequently stared them down.
"In My Country" is a sobering and important look at those hearings through the eyes of two journalists, one American (Samuel L. Jackson) and one Afrikaans (Juliette Binoche).
Jackson's Langston Whitfield, a Washington Post reporter with a goatee and Malcolm X glasses, reasons not only that amnesty is a bad idea, but that all whites should be punished because all benefited from apartheid.
http://www.nypost.com/movies/40924.htmLast edited on Tuesday March 22nd, 2005 12:23 by NativeTongue
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Posted: Saturday June 11th, 2005 03:35 |
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so,is it a good movie?
i'm studying in a country where a dvd costs less than one dollar (china) but when i saw that DVD i was going to buy it until i realised that "in MY country", "MY" was refering to the "WHITE woman", i understand THE GOAL OF THE MOVIE IS TO EMPHASIZE THAT SOUTH AFRICA IS THEIR COUNTRY, i just don't know why that reconciliation in SA seem to mean that blacks forgive and whites do nothing to be forgiven,recently when the name pretoria was changed to Tshwane, whites say it's not in the reconciliation agenda, but do you tell someone who forgive you how to give you forgivness....IT INSULT MY INTELLIGENCE when white ppl claim to be african
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Posted: Monday June 13th, 2005 17:07 |
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NT,
I think that there isn't a movie that I disliked by Samuel Jackson. He's a great actor and you just can feel his emotions when he's expressing himself. He's such a chameleon as well. He can play a role and change his image any we'll never know who he is. I was also thinking about some standout things about Samuel Jackson and it's a question that has popped in my mind ever since I've been watching his movies. Call me crazy, but it seem that in every movie he makes, when he makes a short speech , the next thing you know he ends up being wacked or killed.Even in Star Wars he's talking to Anakin ,making a little Speech andthe next thing you know, he end up being electrocuted and thrown on the otherside of the city? It may sound silly, but it didn't hit me until a guy in the theatre brought that up.
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Posted: Monday June 13th, 2005 17:24 |
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@NT saw the film two weeks ago. Really a non-plus film in my eyes. Very ordinary. Not sure if it was totally because I view the Truth and Reconciillation Proceedinngs as one of the worse insults and gross injustices I have lived through and for me Mandela really lost serious credibility.
We know the calculations involved, but in my view he calcualted wrong. He disempowered and insulted his people and desecrated South Africa's dead. He simply reinforced for me the deep seated inferiority which is part of the African pscyche and the superiority which is part of the white mind set. Similar to Zimbabwe and ZAPU just when the moment of true mental liberation comes the African sense of inferiority comes into play and we come with this bullsh*t about African justice that allows peopple who kill your children like dogs to walk free.
The film had no where to go once the it dealt with the main culprit who was made the scapegoat was jailed and it was obvious that Jasckson had to sex up the white girl to keep it interesting. Mediocre as a piece of film.
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Posted: Monday June 13th, 2005 17:27 |
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CeeCee wrote: NT,
I think that there isn't a movie that I disliked by Samuel Jackson. He's a great actor and you just can feel his emotions when he's expressing himself. He's such a chameleon as well. He can play a role and change his image any we'll never know who he is. I was also thinking about some standout things about Samuel Jackson and it's a question that has popped in my mind ever since I've been watching his movies. Call me crazy, but it seem that in every movie he makes, when he makes a short speech , the next thing you know he ends up being wacked or killed.Even in Star Wars he's talking to Anakin ,making a little Speech andthe next thing you know, he end up being electrocuted and thrown on the otherside of the city? It may sound silly, but it didn't hit me until a guy in the theatre brought that up.
He made it through the "Interrogator".
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Posted: Tuesday June 14th, 2005 05:22 |
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FREDBLACK wrote : "... and we come with this bullsh*t about African justice that allows peopple who kill your children like dogs to walk free...."
to this i say amen! THANK YOU BROTHER!...
for me i don't care if it's samuel l. jackson or denzel washington or djimon hounsou,...this movie is not constructive and it support the fact that whites can do whatever they want in africa and don't have to respond for it...why is Mandela a hero and not Mugabe?
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Posted: Wednesday July 20th, 2005 14:03 |
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| Saw the flick... good performances but i totally agree with Fred Black. The film was pointless. It just makes me dislike white south Africans more. AND i didn't like the idea of Sam, the black american, copping off with the white trophy chick while his chick was back home. A film more for white settlers in Africa i think.
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Posted: Wednesday July 20th, 2005 16:45 |
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Fredblack wrote: @NT saw the film two weeks ago. Really a non-plus film in my eyes. Very ordinary. Not sure if it was totally because I view the Truth and Reconciillation Proceedinngs as one of the worse insults and gross injustices I have lived through and for me Mandela really lost serious credibility.
We know the calculations involved, but in my view he calcualted wrong. He disempowered and insulted his people and desecrated South Africa's dead. He simply reinforced for me the deep seated inferiority which is part of the African pscyche and the superiority which is part of the white mind set. Similar to Zimbabwe and ZAPU just when the moment of true mental liberation comes the African sense of inferiority comes into play and we come with this bullsh*t about African justice that allows peopple who kill your children like dogs to walk free.
The film had no where to go once the it dealt with the main culprit who was made the scapegoat was jailed and it was obvious that Jasckson had to sex up the white girl to keep it interesting. Mediocre as a piece of film.
FB
I heard the same thing about this film. The sex with the white girl wasn't in the book and some reviewers felt it was a bit gratuitous the way it was inserted in the movie. Perhaps it made Sam Jackson happy since he's been bellyaching about black men not having sex with ww onscreen. He's working on a film called "Black Snake Moan"...where he "helps out" a white nymphomaniac (Christina Ricci). Let's hope these 2 films pacify the brothas for the time being.
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